Reddit reviews The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County

I also agree that he’s on the younger side of the estimates. I’m wondering if his parents were divorced, and he was shuttled between households, so he didn’t feel like he had a real “home.”

I grew up in N California, and sometimes it felt like the adults had abdicated. My middle class, college educated parents divorced, and managed to get into EST, Transcendental Meditation, Consciousness Raising, a Feminist Group, and a Pentecostal Church, and I’m sure I’m missing something. At least they avoided Jim Jones’ church, and The Family commune.

There’s a satirical novel titled The Serial that gives an interesting view of the time.

I think there’s a good chance that EARONs had a dysfunctional family. I also think he was part of a construction crew. Maybe his dad or step dad was in construction, and traveled between new home developments as they were being built.